Conclusions [Paperback]

The concluding thoughts of one of Britains greatest film-makers.

What a life! What a career! Harold Pinter

Boorman is one of the world's great directors, a master storyteller. Paul Auster

John Boorman is one of cinema's authentic visionaries whose travels have taken him from London in the Blitz to the pinnacle of Hollywood success: the man behind films such asPoint Blank,Deliverance,Excalibur,Hope and Glory, andThe General.

Conclusionscontinues the story of his life that Boorman began withAdventures of a Suburban Boyand shares what has happened since its publication: films made (such as the award-winningThe General) and unmade; new knowledge about the craft of film-making; and, ultimately, the story of of his kith and kin, including the death of his cherished elder daughter.

Wielding a metaphorical Excalibur, Boormans career has been a continual search for the truth that only art can convey, and this memoir shows him at his finest.GB Delightful, wry, human and elegiacally thoughtful book. ?Financial Times

Boorman may be the most inspired and wayward of English directors since Michael Powell. ?London Review of Books